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Nestled on the western edge of suburban Ottawa lies a wetland under threat from urban expansion. This wetland has long been home to a population of threatened Blanding’s turtles as well as a number of other listed species.
Sierra Club Canada has just learned that the City of Ottawa is rushing the approval of a road extension that would cut right through this crucial habitat. To make matters worse, the extension is unneeded by the surrounding community – it is simply an attempt by the City to claim some of the federal government’s economic stimulus funds.
Alberta’s grizzly bear is a threatened species that needs special protection. In 2002, Alberta’s Endangered Species Conservation Committee (ESCC), representing scientists, universities, First Nations, industries, hunters, conservationists and ranchers, recommended that the grizzly bear be listed as a Threatened species under Alberta’s Wildlife Act. Unfortunately, the government so far has failed to implement this recommendation and Alberta’s grizzlies continue to suffer from a wide array of threats.
Rather than taking action to protect bears, the province has embarked on a further status review and, eight years later, it will ask the ESCC once again to re-examine whether the grizzly bear should be listed as a protected species. Barring any government delays, we expect the status review to be complete in a few weeks time.
Nestled into BC's southeast corner is a wilderness area of global significance called the Flathead Valley.
Sometimes compared with Africa's Serengeti for its richness of species, the Flathead's rare convergence of wildlife and stunning vistas are under threat from mountain-top removal coal mining and other industrial development.
It is time for British Columbians to do our part and place the missing jewel on what National Geographic Magazine calls the "Crown of the Continent" - by agreeing to permanent protection for our Flathead Valley and safeguarding it from destructive coal mining in adjacent areas.
Just weeks after a federal court demanded more information on the significance of the climate change effects of Imperial Oil’s $8-billion Kearl Tar Sands Mine, the Canadian government is demonstrating its hypocrisy on the climate change crisis by preparing to fast-track the company's federal approvals. In doing so, the feds are ignoring once again the dangerous health and environmental effects resulting from tar sands mines, including significant greenhouse gas emissions and the increased incidence of cancer in downstream indigenous communities.
There is a growing consensus that 450ppm CO2e is the "tipping point" for dangerous anthropogenic climate change. This means that any new project that would increase global concentrations of CO2e should by definition be seen as a project with a "significant" effect on Global Climate Change.
The Kearl mine will introduce significant amounts of Greenhouse Gas Pollution into the atmosphere - the equivalent of 800 000 new cars appearing on Canada's roads.
One thing seems clear - the Canadian Harper government is able to move something really fast through when it wants it. The problem is what Canadians really want is for him to move GHG reductions - not increases - through quickly. In March, Environment Minister John Baird stated that tar sands projects would be required by 2012 to incorporate carbon capture and storage technology to reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 2018. The Kearl Project should be subject to these rules!
The $16 billion Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) is the largest proposed industrial development in the history of Canada's north, with three natural gas anchor fields and two pipelines, the longest of which stretches from the Arctic Ocean to Alberta. If approved, this basin-opening megaproject would begin the transformation of the Mackenzie valley from wilderness to petro-industrial landscape.
The MGP is in the final stages of environmental assessment hearings conducted by the Joint Review Panel.
Please let the Panel know that you oppose the Mackenzie Gas Project.
Canada's new plan for climate change uses fake caps -- so-called “emissions intensity” targets.
Tell the government you won’t be fooled by their fake caps and that they must put in place hard caps--regulations that dramatically reduce our overall greenhouse gas emissions based on climate science and our Kyoto obligations.
Le Canada doit mettre en place un système de plafonnement – de la réglementation qui réduira dramatiquement nos emissions totales de gaz à effet de serre basée sur la science du changement climatique et nos obligations Kyoto.
Dites au governement que vous ne serez pas dupé par les « cibles » d’intensité.
Energy giant, ConocoPhillips, earlier this year merged with Burlington Energy; a company that has over 100 sections (260 square kilometers) of oil and gas leases in the woodland caribou herd’s critical habitat. ConocoPhillips must publicly support the establishment of legislated protected areas for caribou habitat and commit to stay out of the caribou habitat already mapped as being critical by the provincial government’s caribou recovery team.
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in its decisions adopted at the 30th Session of the World Heritage Committee has again called on Canada to ensure the adverse impacts of the operation of the massive Cheviot open-pit coal mine (located in Alberta adjacent Jasper National Park) are minimized and mitigated.
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